About Pub Rooms Est 2001
Pub Rooms was the first website in the UK dedicated to pubs with rooms - Pub B&B accommodation. Before the year 2000, pubs offering accommodation mainly catered for construction workers. In the early 2000's pubs & inns were changing rooms to cater the growing demand for places to stay! There was a growing demand for quirky pubs with character to stay. To 'stay in a pub' may not have been considered before 2000 but things started to change. Now (2023) with over 1500 pubs and inns across the UK people are chosing to stay in a pub (rather than a modern hotel).
Read our storyPub Rooms beginning
It all started with a lady from Canada looking for a pub to stay whilst visiting the UK. Wanting something different and off the beaten track she was surprised how difficult it was to find old english inns and pubs to stay. So she created a pub directory to make it easier for people visiting the UK to find pubs to stay. People visiting the UK looking for an alternative to a modern hotel could, using pub rooms. And they did find it easy to find pubs with rooms. In 2005 Pub Rooms was getting over 10k visits a week 500k a year.
Pub Rooms gets an updade
In 2007 Pub Rooms was given an upgrade. Instead of a static website it became dynamic and pubs could update their room details directly. Sadly pub owners were still living in the 90's and didn't believe the internet was a place people search for rooms! Google knew though! Google started to monoplise search research for accommodation and B&B to force websites to pay for search traffic. This came into full force from 2011.
Google Pub Rooms
It all changed on search results when Google introduced hotel search results! Google took control of hotel rooms and room searches! In addition to this more online commission based sites started to use search results as a business model and pub rooms was copied by websites such as Stay in a Pub. At this point Pub Rooms decided to do nothing, sit back and watch the technology evolve! Nothing much evolved but there was thirst for commissions from room reservations.
2018
After watching technology present nothing new to make pubs easier to find Pub Rooms gets upgrade! With a focus on putting customers into contact with the pub directly. Going back to be being simple with a focus on commission free bookings. Google wants a slice of advertising revenue and sites like Stay in a Pub want to take commissions. Pub Rooms want Pubs & Inns to get telephone enquires and commission free enquiries and bookings. And then at the beginnng of 2020 the world was closed!
2020 - 2022
Pandemics - Lockdowns, Pubs closed! With worldwide travel bans, social distancing, vaccination passports, cashless transactions the UK's pub and hospitality industry was driven to near bankruptcy. For those that survived the turmoil, it was an opportunity to be exploited by technology. Apps and online booking established itself further. How did a pub with 6 rooms offering B&B survive by taking enquiries over the phone and writing in a book next to the phone? Before an online calendar was sold as a solution! Online reservations and online commissions presented pubs & inns with an additional cost burden. Do Pubs & Inns want to be contacted directly? Do they want commission free bookings? Do they want to provide great customer service over the phone by a human? Pub Rooms believe customer want this and pubs and inns want this too. Tell us if you agree or disagree.
2023 - The Future of Pub Rooms
As the world slowly opened back up and people start to look for overnight stays, pub rooms is prepared. Taking on board the changes during the 2020 - 2022 pandemic Pub Rooms has created a unique and improved organic reach for pubs with rooms. Putting customers directly into contact with the places they want to stay. An emphasis clearly on customer service, local information and commission free room bookings. Pub Rooms was the only UK pubs guide for B&B in 2002 and in 2023 it will be the number one best website to find pubs near...
Our team
The Pub Rooms team is dedicated to keeping all the pubs and inns up to date with all their latest room prices and offers. Some offers are exclusive to pub rooms so make sure you're on the early bird notifications.
Looking for the best room prices in the best pubs / inns across the UK? You're on the right platform. Pub Rooms was founded to put you in direct contact with Pubs / Inns front of house, speak direct not via a 3rd party commission system.
Call your favourite Pubs - Inns and get the best prices for rooms you know and trust.
The team at Pub Rooms work relentlessly to keep all the details up todate, including special offers, events and private function room hire.
With a background in technology and marketing the sole purpose of Pub Rooms is to get you speaking or contacting the pubs directly.
The commission based websites have made a lot of owners realise they are not serving their customers in the best possible way. Review sites equally mislead people which results in bookings made else where. Good pubs and inns are missing out simply because people cannot contact the pubs / inns they want to stay in directly.